Articles in foundations tier

I am the son of an artist. As is the case for many artists, creating artifacts rarely pays the bills, but teaching art does, hence, I am the son of an art teacher: an artist who taught his skills instead of plying his wares.
Being the art teacher at our local public...

by Elizabeth Morales
“Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.”
~Rabindranath Tagore
The pursuit of classical education is to seek the good, the true, and the beautiful. I heard this saying all through my high school years in...

There are few things quite so exhilarating as imparting the gifts of literacy, imagination, and creativity to the freshmen who take Foundations of Musical Skill with me. It opens the world for them to explore anything from Bach to the Beatles (but definitely not Bieber...

Do you feel like you are reminding your family to do the same thing over and over?
This one closet door in our house is a good example.
I have given verbal directions. I have used a variety of different notes. I have used an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper and taped it a...

My wife and I started homeschooling in earnest twenty years ago this month. Our fourth, and last, child graduated from Challenge IV in May. Classical Conversations didn’t come to our area until our oldest two children were already graduated; fortunately, they enjoyed a...